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To: AlienTech who wrote (20970)	3/9/2002 2:51:53 PM
From: AlienTech	Respond to of 281500

CIA lies about IRAQ.. From the outset the CIA recognised two countries in particular would be very difficult to undermine easily: Iraq and Libya. The Agency infiltrated the Kurdish population in the north of Iraq but failed to gain the influence it needed. Sceptical readers should note that all Kurds inside Iraq are now known as `Freedom Fighters' while their brethren north of the border in NATO Turkey are labeled `Terrorists'. The governments of Iraq and Libya managed to foil dozens of CIA attempts aimed not only at infiltration but also assassination of the Iraqi and Libyan heads of state. One CIA report written in 1985 referred to a failed attempt to murder Colonel Al Qadhafi, stating the hired killers were `inefficient'. Ex. CIA Deputy Director John McMahon echoed the criticism. >> . The most memorable (and successful) of the ploys used was to turn President Hussein into the man who `gassed his own Kurds' at Halabja. The same devastating images of dead women and children lying in the streets were shown thousands of times on all western television channels, placing President Hussein well beyond western `rehabilitation' under any circumstances. Unfortunately the entire exercise was a complete lie. The CIA knew very well that a February 1990 US Army War College report concluded Iraq was not responsible for the Halabja attack, stating it was the Iranian bombardment that had actually killed the Kurds.' The War College findings were hardly surprising: the Kurdish people of Halabja were killed by a war gas known as "Phosgene" used by the Iranians but not the Iraqis. >> Around 16 February 1991 American AV8B Harrier ground-attack jets started flying with wing-mounted napalm pods. Less than a week later on 22 February President Bush accused Iraqi forces of lighting 140+ oil wells in Kuwait. If the Iraqi forces had done so they managed it while under continual attack by about 2,500 coalition aircraft: an act of crass stupidity or outstanding bravery in the face of stupefying American firepower. Somehow the western media missed the point that napalm burns at a temperature high enough to melt the side-pipes on oil wellheads and is capable of setting fire to the crude oil which then blasts out under high pressure. Most of the public also remained unaware that CIA pilots are cross-trained to fly a large variety of both military and civilian aircraft. >> The masses of environmental scientists who swarmed to the Gulf to examine the carnage were skillfully shown slick damage in the Gulf, mines on the beach at Kuwait, smoke in the sky and some low pressure blowouts in the Burgan field. None, including Greenpeace, was allowed to stray into the real problem areas to the north of Kuwait city, or the areas of southern Iraq subjected to carpet-bombing by American B52 heavy bombers from Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. Blowout pressures in the north were up to ten times as high as those in Burgan field, a very good reason for keeping unwanted spectators away. John McMahone's old company, Bechtel, subtly directed the flow of traffic away from the `dangerous' areas. Huge lakes of crude oil no longer burning to atmosphere in-creased in size to the point where some roads were impassable. >> During 1982 many Britons wondered aloud at the sheer compassion of their government, which sent an entire battle fleet to evict the Argentines who, it was rumoured, were indecently assaulting a few hundred Falklands sheep farmers. It was democracy at its best and countless thousands of patriotic Britons cheered the QEII as she cleared the harbour at Southampton laden with troops for the fight in the South Atlantic. During late 1981 an obscure document was circulated around the senior staff of a large British multinational oil company. The data it contained was staggering and details swiftly leaked. In a recently completed comprehensive seismic survey of the Falkland Islands continental shelf, realistic estimates indicated oil reserves more than ten times larger than those in Saudi Arabia. For anyone with the wealth to exploit the reserves, the magnitude of the prize was almost beyond comprehension. Vast oil reserves in the western hemisphere were not simply tempting but becoming a strategic imperative in the minds of those who were frustrated by their inability to raise world oil prices. Reducing Middle East production significantly was the only way to achieve the objective but how could it possibly be done? After all, the Arab countries might object to the controls placed upon them. Personnel at CIA headquarters in Langley went to work eagerly searching for a solution. geocities.com . How were the specialists to control rogue wells surrounded by huge oil lakes, growing larger all the time as they were continually fed with more underground oil & gas? The British New Scientist of 9 November 1991 painted a grim picture of the massive problem the environmentalists had chosen to forget: " The lakes vary in size and depth but are usually no more than a metre deep. In the northern oilfields, small lakes have run together to form rivers that stretch for many kilometres." Horrifying stuff and it got worse. Middle East contacts advised that one of the lakes measured about 8 kilometres by 5 but was `only' about a metre deep. Only? The capacity of that lake alone to a depth of one metre is 230 million barrels. How many lakes are left, what is their combined capacity and how many rogue wells are still feeding them? Alas, the CIA and NSA are being coy and sitting on the satellite images, so details may be withheld until a complete cure is impossible. One thing is certain: the western public will never be told the truth. From the CIA's viewpoint Kuwait and Iraq were oil cripples with savage sanctions `punishing' the entire civilian population of Iraq by slowly starving women and children to death while deadly toxic uranium dust worked even more slowly in the south of Iraq and in Kuwait. Put simply the CIA was responsible for the clearest case of genocide since Pol Pot butchered more than a million unarmed civilians in Cambodia during the 1970s. Vialls Investigations Exposing Media Disinformation geocities.com